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S O UTH ASIA
IndianPMlaunchesUjjwala 2.0
The Prime Minister, Shri Narendra Modi launched Ujjwala 2.0 (Pradhan Mantri Ujjwala Yojana - PMUY) by handing over LPG connections at Mahoba Uttar Pradesh today via video conferencing. During the event, the Prime Minister interacted with beneficiaries of the Ujjwala.
Addressing the event, the Prime Minister said he was delighted to address the sisters of UP ahead of Raksha Bandhan. He said the number of people, especially women whose lives have been illuminated by the Ujjwala Yojana is unprecedented. This scheme was launched in 2016 from Ballia in UP, from the land of Mangal Pandey, the pioneer of the freedom struggle. He said today the second edition of Ujjwala is also launched from UP’s Veerbhoomi - Mahoba. He remembered another son of the soil of Bundelkhand, Major Dhyan Chand or Dadda Dhyan Chand. He said the name of the country’s highest sports award is now named as Major Dhyan Chand Khel Ratna Award. He said this will inspire lakhs of people who want to pursue sports.
Shri Modi also said that efforts are on to provide gas through pipes at a much larger scale. He said PNG is much cheaper than cylinder and work is on to provide PNG in many districts of eastern India including in UP. In the first phase, a target has been to connect 12 lakh households in more than 50 districts of UP.
INDIANOIL, August 10, 2021
SOUTHEAST ASIA
Pertaminaincreases
Balongan refinery
capabilities, reliability
Six months since the initial inauguration, the Pertamina Balongan Refinery development project has shown encouraging progress. One of the National Strategic Projects (PSN) which is part of the big plan for the development
of the Pertamina refinery, aka the Refinery Development Master Plan (RDMP), has indeed started the initial piling of the Crude Distillate Upgrading (CDU) Project crude
oil refining facility last February. Now, the Balongan RDMP project continues to progress by rejuvenating equipment in the Residue Catalytic Cracking (RCC) unit to increase its operational capability and reliability.
The RCC unit is an important facility in the petroleum processing process because
it aims to increase the value of the product produced through a chemical process, namely with the help of a catalyst. At the Balongan refinery, located in Indramayu Regency, West Java, the RCC revitalization project is in the Propylene Jetty area (an existing jetty) and will be executed early next year.
As with other Pertamina RDMP projects throughout Indonesia, the Balongan RDMP is also spearheaded by PT Kilang Pertamina Internasional (KPI) as Pertamina’s subholding company in the processing and petrochemical sectors. According to Pertamina’s Subholding Refining & Petrochemical Corporate Secretary, Ifki Sukarya, there are three main
activities for this RCC revitalization project, namely Turn Around; construction of New Construction Jetty; and dredging of the New Construction Jetty area.
PERTAMINA, August 12, 2021
EAST ASIA
PetroChina’s Ethane-to-
Ethylene Project put into
operation
On August 3, the Changqing Ethane- to-Ethylene Project undertaken by the PetroChina Lanzhou Petrochemical Company started production, and produced up-to- standard ethylene products. Located in Yulin City, Shaanxi Province, the project comprises an 800Kt/a ethane-ethylene cracker, a 400Kt/a high-density polyethylene (HDPE) plant and a 400Kt/a full density polyethylene (FDPE) plant as well as other utilities and supporting auxiliaries. The project will play a positive
role in driving regional economic growth and accelerating development in northern Shaanxi.
The project highlights green and low- carbon concepts. Novel flue gas denitration technology is adopted, to reduce nitrogen oxides emissions by 70% compared with conventional cracking furnace and achieve ultra-low exhaust gas emissions. Catalytic oxidation is introduced for waste alkali treatment, along with ultrafiltration + reverse osmosis and evaporative crystallization for deep recycling of wastewater, with a reuse rate over 95%. Moreover, by leveraging cutting-edge information technologies
such as big data and cloud computing,
the project has been built into a “smart factory”, which integrates production scheduling, electromechanical instrument management and control, and emergency command. It is listed by the National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology (MIIT) as a national demonstration project for producing ethylene via the cracking of ethane.
PETROCHINA, August 04, 2021
OCEANIA
MOL, Origin sign MoU on green ammonia study
Mitsui O.S.K. Lines, Ltd. (MOL) today announced that it has signed a memorandum
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